Well my name was Doug Anderson and I was a faculty member and later an
administrator here at Arizona State University arrived here as an a tenure
track assistant professor in the fall of 1979 and went through the
professorial ranks here was made the director of the walter Cronkite
School of Journalism and telecommunication, which is now the walter
Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass communication. I was made the
director of the school in 1987, served in that capacity until 1999 when I
left to become the dean of the College of Communications at Penn State
University.
I'm paul bender and I'm professor at the law school. Today is you?
My name is Vladimir borisov onscreen and my position lost position at A. S.
U. Of collection development division.
Well, my my name is Alan carroll, the budget director,
Bob Francis. So I began in 1970, retired in 2002, started as the editor of
Publications for Alumni Association um later became the assistant director
and editor and then moved into undergraduate admissions. And then my life.
My last five years with the university were spent working with Greek life.
My name is walter Harris, I was vice provost of the university when I left
the university.
My name is Ted Humphrey and at present I'm barrett. Professor, president,
professor and Lincoln Professor of ethics today issue
I'm SAm kirkpatrick. I came to us. You in 1980 for as dean of the College
of Liberal Arts at that time before we changed its name and as a full
professor of political science
louis Olivia's professor emeritus W. P. Carey School of Business
management department also did a little stint In the office of the provost
for 17 years, working as an assistant VP of Academic affairs.
I'm Dave Schwan and I came my various positions at MSU included associate
professor in the department of english in the english department, I was
director of the freshman compromise and I was vice provost for academic
affairs at S. U. West and ultimately
vice provost for academic affairs at the polytechnic campus and sometimes
dean of East College, sometimes both.
I was in charge of international student programs at Arizona State
University.
We come to 9 11 that definitely had an impact. Talk about that. Yes of
course I had The luck I guess you could call it to retire two months
before September 11 so we didn't know what was coming. But I remember when
when I gave my goodbye remark it's my retirement remarks. I did say that
was in 2001. Well things are going pretty well now everything is calm now
let's see what comes next. Well September 11 of course what came next and
it was just a tremendous impact on the international student program.
Number one students couldn't get the visas anymore for a long time. So the
involvement numbers went down tremendously secondly there was really not
the friendship and goodwill towards international students, particularly
those from the Middle East. So I know they worked very very hard to you
know to win their confidence again and they have done that now because the
student the international student program is alive and well at Arizona
State University is doing very very well but it was a total shock for
everyone and if I can tell a little anecdote which seems unbelievable but
it's actually true.
I had a student that wanted to see me and he specifically asked for me but
my staff told me he was not and he was not in our program, he had not been
admitted yet but he waited and waited. He didn't have an appointment. So
finally he came in and I remember thinking he wanted to get into computer
science,
he was in a flight school in the neighbor in the area here. But you know I
felt very sorry for him because to me he seemed like a lost sheep because
he didn't know what to do. He said, he said he was under tremendous
pressure. Then the second time he came and again he wanted to see me and
again we had the same discussions but again I couldn't help him because
you know admission was not my area of competence. We didn't admit students.
Well as it turned out I guess you guessed it now he was one of the
terrorists. But you know he didn't seem like an aggressive
person you would be afraid of, he was a lost jeep which I thought that was
interesting
Craig and Barbara Barrett proposed to Latvian albacore
ah,
that they wanted to make a gift. Um, they did not propose it as a naming
gift. They just wanted to make a gift ah and President Core called me and
we had a number of different conversations about about
the gift and what we wanted to do with it. And I had written up a work
plan for use of the income from the ah, from the gift. Well, um, we had to
go to the barrettes and convince them that, um,
convinced them to allow us to use their names for the college.
And I think it was, it was an extraordinarily important move at the time.
Uh, it was the last college created, but it was the first college on this
campus that was named by, by the time
we got the naming endowment, there were, because our architecture was
Portable. There were 75 university honors colleges in the United States.
Okay, so now all of a sudden were indistinguishable from all of these
operations that we've spawned. We really needed name identification and,
and uh, Frankly, I think that the name we got is exactly the right one.
It's the appropriate one for us. It says all the right things in the first
place. You know, uh, intel
is one of the groundbreaking, one of the culture changing organizations Of
the second half of the 20th century Barbara Barrett has a long, long
history with the institution. And Barbara Barrett is exactly the kind of
student
person who's, whose life that makes sense for these students to emulate
first generation college goers. She had very little in the way of
resources. When she came. She succeeded at an extraordinary level. So here
we had in a single package uh
a role model. We had an advocate for strong education in the country and
we had the name, a name associated with uh maybe the single most important
company in terms of culture change Of the second half of the 26. It's
really important just having the name read a lot of success. Barrett is
now one of the desirable names for students uh to matriculate
your friends back east. Give you a hard time about moving the cookie.
No, because I start by giving myself a hard time and that the flights I I
tried to make it better for years. I've given a talk every year to the
national convention of the N. A. A. C. P. Legal Defense Fund, which is the
main civil rights litigating organization. United States Circuit Marshall
was when the head of that. And I give something summarizing the Supreme
Court term that was just finished or now what I do is preview the upcoming
Supreme Court term pam Karlan does the other point of that. And I used to
love going back there and talking about Governor Megan and all the legal
problems that I see, you'd never believe this. And so if you do it that
way, then they can hardly make fun of you because you've already made fun
of yourself. Um He always gave us something to talk about. I mean, Arizona
is a really legally and I just think of all the important cases, the
Supreme Court decided that come from Arizona Miranda is Miranda against
Arizona. A case involved in juvenile justice came from Arizona Southern
pacific against area very famous game. And Arizona has been
overrepresented in the Supreme Court. We it was the time 2/9 of the
Supreme Court of people from Arizona from this tiny little state. So
Arizona is at the center. And then there are more cases involving Arizona
involving constitutional issues in the Supreme Court lately than any other
state. I mean, I could there are years when there were three or four cases
important cases involving Arizona where there that makes teaching both of
these constitutional law courses more interesting. So yeah, you go back
and you say, hey, I'm from Arizona, we're kind of this cradle of disputes
about the constitution and we're doing everybody a favor by raising all of
these issues and you can laugh at us, but good things come out of it. So
if you if you approach it that way, then they can't make fun of you
because you've already made fun of you. So
you want to go back to to Mr Cronkite for for a minute that the time that
he gave to this institution over that it was more than his name. And uh in
the early days as you will recall. I mean, he would come out a couple of
times here. He always came for the luncheon And and would spend a day or
two on campus uh visiting uh with students and he loved faculty members
and uh employee. We would working hard, we would start with a breakfast
somewhere in the morning and usually end up in somebody's house in Sun
City at night. And I remember him drive and we drive back from some city
at 10 o'clock at night. We always tried to protect him because those were
long, long days and we always try, we put him in my office at Stoffer haul
for a half hours at 12 30 to 1 o'clock or one o'clock to 1 30 so we could
make some telephone calls or whatever before we went out and about. And we
would always obviously respect that the door would be closed. And I fiddle
around and so one day in particular, I I remember I came back and just a
few minutes before 1 30 when we were gonna he was gonna go to a class down
down the hallway. And so I was just standing there in the in the front
office and uh and there was a a father and a son at the at the counter and
a staff assistant was there providing them with, you know, some curriculum
check sheets. So they were there to, you know, check on the program that
young man was thinking about. I think he was from Minnesota was thinking
about applying to a. S. U. In the in the Cronkite school. And so they were
looking at the information and all of a sudden the door to my office
opened and walter walks walks out, nods his head to the the young man and
the and the dad and says to me, well I'm gonna run down the hallway to use
the restroom, I'll be back in a couple of minutes and we can head to class.
And, and and the dad looked at the sun and the sun looked at the, the,
the dad and the dad looked, it actually was uh lisa Coleman standing there.
Uh it was a staff assistant in her office and and, and and said the lisa
said is walter Cronkite on staff here
on the first day before classes, you have tables out of them, all their
fraternity and sorority tables, their religious tables and And here I'm
teaching modern social problems. And being from Michigan, the governor
when I was in the 60s was George Romney Mitt Romney's father and I knew uh
the Romney family was mormon. In fact, I think mitt Romney may have gone
to the same elementary school, I went to Hampton because they were from
the that well to do section across uh liver annoy Avenue was called. And
the, so I knew about mormons, but I didn't know that Normans were referred
to themselves as Latter day Saints. And I saw this table that said LDS on
it. And so I went up and a young man there gave me the brochure and I
thank you very much. I said, do you have something on cocaine and heroin
too? I thought it was LSD of course. And I opened it up and I realized
what I had done. I apologized right away. It was a terrible, so I told me
and I said, this is not a good start, here it is. But but that was my
first day.